Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in Ovid

Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in Ovid

Author: Bartolo A. Natoli
ISBN: 9780299312145
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Offers a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus...  Read More >>

Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford College Libraries

Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian...

Author: Elizabeth Solopova (Faculty of English & English Literature, Oxford University (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781800349223
Format: Paperback
$159.59

The catalogue is a detailed study of Oxford manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, the first complete translation...  Read More >>

Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry

Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative...

Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre (Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781800348639
Format: Paperback
$64.56

A stylistic and historical study of one of the most celebrated features of Middle English alliterative poetry, the...  Read More >>

A Guide to Ancient Greek Literature, Language, Script, Imagination and Philosophy

A Guide to Ancient Greek Literature, Language, Script,...

Author: Frederic Will
ISBN: 9781527566613
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece....  Read More >>

Chariton Von Aphrodisias, 'Kallirhoe': Kommentar Zu Den Buchern 1-4

Chariton Von Aphrodisias, 'Kallirhoe': Kommentar Zu...

Author: Manuel Baumbach (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum) ,  Manuel Sanz Morales
ISBN: 9783825350383
Format: Hardback
$232.32

English summary: Chariton's Callirhoe is the earliest complete Greek historical novel, composed sometime between...  Read More >>

Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing

Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle...

Author: Tara Williams
ISBN: 9780814257630
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"In Inventing Womanhood, Tara Williamsinvestigates new ideas about womanhood that arose in fourteenth-century Britain...  Read More >>

The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate

The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead,...

Author: Basil Dufallo
ISBN: 9780814256268
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The ancient Romans quite literally surrounded themselves with the dead: masks of the dead were in the atria of their...  Read More >>

Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France

Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides...

Author: Paul White
ISBN: 9780814257012
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"Ovid's Heroides, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent...  Read More >>

8 Books That Changed the World

8 Books That Changed the World

Author: Joseph Luzzi ,  Joseph Luzzi
ISBN: 9781662078002
Format: Audio
$60.69

One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United...  Read More >>

8 Books That Changed the World

8 Books That Changed the World

Author: Joseph Luzzi ,  Joseph Luzzi
ISBN: 9798228076723
Format: Audio
$65.97

One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United...  Read More >>

8 Books That Changed the World

8 Books That Changed the World

Author: Joseph Luzzi ,  Joseph Luzzi
ISBN: 9798228076747
Format: Audio
$110.85

One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United...  Read More >>

29. Salemer Sommerakademie: Frauen Und Frauenbild in Der Antike

29. Salemer Sommerakademie: Frauen Und Frauenbild in...

Author: Bernhard Zimmermann
ISBN: 9783968217772
Format: Paperback
$105.60

"Der Band enthalt die Beitrage, die anlasslich der Sommerakademie des Kultusministeriums Baden-Wurttemberg zum Thema...  Read More >>

The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture

The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing...

Author: Robyn Faith Walsh
ISBN: 9781108835305
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for...  Read More >>

Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus

Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of...

Author: Ioannis Ziogas (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780198845140
Format: Hardback
$265.95

Law and Love in Ovid challenges the view that legal language in poetry is a sign of frivolity and argues that it...  Read More >>

Fragments in Context - Frammenti e dintorni

Fragments in Context - Frammenti e dintorni

Author: Virginia Mastellari
ISBN: 9783946317265
Format: Hardback
$199.21

The anthology deals with fragments of Greek literature and their contexts.  Read More >>

The Banisher of Madness: An Interpretation of Language as the Vessel of All Truths Sacred and Profane in the Teachings of Ibn al-Sarrāj of Baghdad

The Banisher of Madness: An Interpretation of Language...

Author: Dunja Rašić
ISBN: 9781463241629
Format: Hardback
$403.92

Examines the relationship between language, logic and grammar in Ibn al-Sarrāj’s teachings.  Read More >>

In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia

In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia...

Author: Brian P. Sowers
ISBN: 9780674987371
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Examining Aelia Eudocia’s writings as a unified whole and in context, Brian P. Sowers reveals an exceptional author...  Read More >>

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410398833
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading...  Read More >>

Band Viii,1: S-Sn. 4.-9. Lieferung

Band Viii,1: S-Sn. 4.-9. Lieferung

Author: Hans Ulrich Schmid
ISBN: 9783110699807
Format: Paperback
$364.29

The Dictionary of Old High German aims to comprehensively trace and compile all of the extant vocabulary from this...  Read More >>

Magna Voce: Effets Et Pouvoirs de la Voix Dans La Philosophie Et La Litterature Antiques

Magna Voce: Effets Et Pouvoirs de la Voix Dans La Philosophie...

Author: Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic
ISBN: 9782406106609
Format: Paperback
$163.68

The voice occupies a major place in antiquity: it diffracts itself in many fields (musical, linguistic, poetic,...  Read More >>

Tagzeitentexte Des Mittelalters: Untersuchungen Und Texte Zur Deutschen Gebetbuchliteratur

Tagzeitentexte Des Mittelalters: Untersuchungen Und...

Author: Stefan Matter
ISBN: 9783110601237
Format: Hardback
$364.29

Das lateinische Stundengebet des regulierten Klerus, dessen Texte ab dem hohen Mittelalter im Brevier versammelt...  Read More >>

A British Book Collector: Rare Books and Manuscripts in the R.E. Hart Collection, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery

A British Book Collector: Rare Books and Manuscripts...

Author: Cynthia Johnston
ISBN: 9780992725792
Format: Paperback
$110.85

Based on a major exhibition at Two Temple Place in London, A British Book Collector celebrates one of the finest...  Read More >>

Magna Voce: Effets Et Pouvoirs de la Voix Dans La Philosophie Et La Litterature Antiques

Magna Voce: Effets Et Pouvoirs de la Voix Dans La Philosophie...

Author: Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic
ISBN: 9782406106616
Format: Hardback
$287.76

The voice occupies a major place in antiquity: it diffracts itself in many fields (musical, linguistic, poetic,...  Read More >>

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